WOPR!

posted by Mordhaus 5 years 5 months 1 week ago • 546 views • 8:01

"... Cannikin (5 Megaton Nuclear Device Amchitka, Alaska). Excerpt from "Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero". Mind you, the footage is directly above the epicenter, whereas the epicenter of most earthquakes... continue reading

posted by ant 5 years 6 months ago • 535 views • 3:07

I may be one of the largest repositories of random, useless knowledge but I had absolutely no idea this happened.

posted by Mordhaus 5 years 8 months ago • 581 views • 12:17

From YT: RDS-37 was the Soviet Union's first two-stage hydrogen bomb, first tested on November 22, 1955. The weapon had a nominal yield of approximately 3 megatons. It was scaled down to 1.6 megatons... continue reading

posted by notarobot 5 years 12 months ago • 122 views • 2:31

Exploring a few innovations in nuclear power generation that could make new plants much safer...if we were still making new plants.

posted by newtboy 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 629 views • 8:11

Declassified nuclear test video.

posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 7 years 1 month 1 week ago • 1,911 views • 47 secs

From YT: What would happen if a nuclear weapon was dropped near you? How To Survive A Nuclear War: https://youtu.be/iONIkV0IHOc

posted by RFlagg 7 years 3 months ago • 691 views • 5:02

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords. be gentle, Siftbot [yt] CHILL NEW PODCAST: http://bit.ly/1aDHSVC In INHUMAN KIND, Motherboard gains exclusive access to a small fleet of US Army bomb... continue reading

posted by Kulpims T'dna (kulpims) 9 years ago • 613 views • 28:40

An analysis of the damage on the ground following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Not my usual sort of Sift but the narration struck me as oddly detached and inhuman. The combination of the narration... continue reading

posted by FlowersInHisHair 9 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 274 views • 12:53

YouTube Description: Command And Control book: [See YouTube description] FOLLOW: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow and http://www.audionetwork.com ... continue reading

posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 1 decade 6 months ago • 716 views • 8:24

The 21st Century: Bone and Thyroid Cancer Awareness Century Thanks, nuclear energy!! (thanks to radx for better embed)

posted by chingalera 1 decade 8 months 1 week ago • 191 views • 21:11

No hotdogs ?

posted by Mobius 1 decade 1 year 1 month 2 weeks ago • 2,197 views • 1:13

Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1946 at Bikini Atoll. They were the first tests of nuclear bombs since Trinity. The US government wanted to see the effects... continue reading

posted by Morganth 1 decade 1 year 10 months 1 week ago • 1,766 views • 9:37

Bill explains that the hardest step is making the proper type of uranium. Weapons and power plants require uranium that contains a greater amount of the isotope uranium-235 than found in natural uranium,... continue reading

posted by critical_d 1 decade 1 year 10 months 1 week ago • 2,756 views • 4:39

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" asks Regina Dugan, then director of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In this breathtaking talk she describes some of... continue reading

posted by smiley 1 decade 2 years 1 month ago • 1,840 views • 25:02

Freaky deaky; the US' answer to the Brits' ominous, semi-useless "Protect and Survive".

posted by calvados 1 decade 3 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,308 views • 23:06

February 19, 2012 CNN

posted by marinara 1 decade 2 years 2 months 1 week ago • 2,091 views • 3:53